UNESCO

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  6/12/2023
  

  Biden Administration Seeks US Readmission to UN Cultural Body, Aims at Countering China's Soft Power

  In a reversal of Trump policy, the US will seek to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues because of the perception that China has gained extensive influence over the body, which supervises international educational and cultural heritage initiatives. 

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• 3/27/2020
  

  A New Lease on Life for the "Jewish Nose" Lie

  by Moshe Phillips

  Anti-Semitic humor helps bigotry infiltrate mainstream culture and discourse.

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• SOURCE: The Times of Israel
  7-7-17
  

  At stormy meet, UNESCO declares Hebron an endangered Palestinian site

  Israel says resolution calling the biblical Tomb of the Patriarchs a Palestinian heritage site is ‘shameful’; second anti-Israel vote in three days.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  10-13-15
  

  Japan May Cut Unesco Funds Following Nanjing Massacre Listing

  Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Tuesday said Japan may cut its financial contribution to an agency of the United Nations after the organization added documents on the Nanjing Massacre to its International Memory of the World Register last week.

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• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  8-29-13
  

  Row erupts in Mexico over chocolate museums at Mayan sites

  Critics claim abuse of Unesco status.

• SOURCE: BBC News
  7-11-13
  

  Alfred Hitchcock joins UNESCO register

  Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent films will join artefacts such as the Domesday Book in representing the cultural heritage of the UK.Hitchcock's films - the British director's earliest works - premiered at the British Film Institute last summer following extensive restoration.They have now been added to the Unesco UK Memory of the World Register.The register "reflects the richness of UK culture and history, from medieval manuscripts to ground-breaking cinema"....

• SOURCE: WaPo
  6-7-13
  

  UNESCO team says destruction to Mali’s fabled Timbuktu is more alarming that first estimates

  UNITED NATIONS — A team of experts led by UNESCO said Friday it has found far more serious damage to Mali’s cultural heritage in the fabled city of Timbuktu than initially estimated, with 16 mausoleums totally destroyed and over 4,000 ancient manuscripts lost.Lazare Eloundou Assomo of UNESCO’s World Heritage Center, who led the mission, said a visit to the damaged and destroyed sites on Thursday revealed that the destruction by Islamist rebels who occupied Timbuktu and the rest of the north until early this year “is even more alarming than we thought.”“We discovered that 14 of Timbuktu’s mausoleums, including those that are part of the UNESCO World Heritage sites, were totally destroyed, along with two others at the Djingareyber Mosque,” a famous learning center built in 1327 which also needs to be repaired, he said....

• SOURCE: Archaeology News Network
  3-17-13
  

  Crete wants Minoans on UNESCO list

  Crete  is still pushing for Knossos to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is now preparing a new folder titled Minoan civilization, which will include the most important monuments on the island, such as Phaistos, Zakros and the archaeological site of Malia, with Knossos dominating the list.